On Wednesday, a veterinarian with West Sound Wildlife Shelter completed a necropsy on the bald eagle. She found a bullet resting against the eagle’s lung. The bullet had gone through bird’s left leg and abdomen, then grazed her heart. That caused a pericardial effusion.

West Sound Wildlife will store the eagle’s body and the bullet until the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decides how to proceed.

Meanwhile, if something like this were to happen again, Phillips said he would call the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, based on the advice he received from the state.

Sgt. Ted Jackson with WDFW told KOMO 4, the federal agency has jurisdiction but might have been too short staffed to help.

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